| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: Are you stuck up, Emil, or is anything the
matter with you? I never did know a boy
twenty-two years old before that didn't have
no girl. You wanna be a priest, maybe? Not-a
for me!" Amedee swaggered. "I bring many
good Catholics into this world, I hope, and
that's a way I help the Church."
Emil looked down and patted him on the
shoulder. "Now you're windy, 'Medee. You
Frenchies like to brag."
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: wife in their one narrow room, walking back and forth with
the restlessness of a caged brute, or sitting motionless for
hours, watching Trina at her work, feeling a dull glow of
shame at the idea that she was supporting him. This feeling
had worn off quickly, however. Trina's work was only hard
when she chose to make it so, and as a rule she supported
their misfortunes with a silent fortitude.
Then, wearied at his inaction and feeling the need of
movement and exercise, McTeague would light his pipe and
take a turn upon the great avenue one block above Polk
Street. A gang of laborers were digging the foundations for
McTeague |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: back, wreathed with foliage, and supporting the Globe. They
represented Faith, Hope, and Charity; their feet rested on monsters
rending each other, among them the symbolical serpent. In 1846, now
that such immense strides have been made in the art of which Benvenuto
Cellini was the master, by Mademoiselle de Fauveau, Wagner, Jeanest,
Froment-Meurice, and wood-carvers like Lienard, this little
masterpiece would amaze nobody; but at that time a girl who understood
the silversmith's art stood astonished as she held the seal which
Lisbeth put into her hands, saying:
"There! what do you think of that?"
In design, attitude, and drapery the figures were of the school of
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